Tal Hassner

The Open University of Israel
PhD - The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Contact info

Office address:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel
1 University Road, P.O.B. 808, Raanana 43107, Israel

Office phone: +972-9-778-1261
Office Fax: +972-9-778-0605

E-Mail: hassner@openu.ac.il

Research Interests

I am a senior faculty member at the Open University of Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. My research interests are mainly Statistical Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

T. Hassner, L. Wolf, A. Lerner, and Y. Leitner Viewing the Viewers: how Adults With Attentional Deficits Watch Educational Videos, Journal of Attention Disorders (JAD), To appear, 2012 (PDF)

T. Hassner, V. Mayzels, and L. Zelnik-Manor, On SIFTs and their Scales, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Rhode Island, June 2012 (project, PDF)

T. Hassner, Y. Itcher, and O. Kliper-Gross, Violent Flows: Real-Time Detection of Violent Crowd Behavior, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Surveillance and Monitoring (SISM) at the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Rhode Island, June 2012 (Data, PDF)

O. Kliper-Gross, T. Hassner, and L. Wolf, The Action Similarity Labeling Challenge, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 34(3), March 2012 (database, PDF)

O. Kliper-Gross, T. Hassner, and L. Wolf, One Shot Similarity Metric Learning for Action Recognition, International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (SIMBAD), Venice, Italy, Sept. 2011 (PDF, Video-lecture)

L. Wolf, T. Hassner, and I. Maoz, Face Recognition in Unconstrained Videos with Matched Background Similarity, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, June 2011 (project, PDF)

Lior Wolf, Tal Hassner, and Yaniv Taigman, Effective Face Recognition by Combining Multiple Descriptors and Learned Background Statistics, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 33(10), Oct. 2011 (PDF)

Ronen Basri, Tal Hassner, and Lihi Zelnik-Manor*, Approximate Nearest Subspace Search, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 33(2), Feb. 2011 (PDF). Editor's selection for spotlight paper.
*Author names in alphabetical order due to equal contribution.

Dmitry Kropotov, Dmitry Vetrov, Lior Wolf, and Tal Hassner, Variational Relevance Vector Machine for Tabular Data, JMLR: Workshop and Conference Proceedings 13: 79-94, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML), Tokyo, Oct. 2010.

Ronen Basri, Tal Hassner, and Lihi Zelnik-Manor*, A General Framework for Approximate Nearest Subspace Search, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Sept 2009 (project, PDF)
*Author names in alphabetical order due to equal contribution.

Lior Wolf, Tal Hassner, and Yaniv Taigman, The One-Shot Similarity Kernel, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Sept 2009 (project and code, Extended version PDF)

Lior Wolf, Tal Hassner, and Yaniv Taigman, Similarity Scores based on Background Samples, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Xi' an, Sept 2009 (PDF, data)

Yaniv Taigman, Lior Wolf, and Tal Hassner, Multiple One-Shots for Utilizing Class Label Information, The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), London, Sept 2009 (project, PDF, data)

Lior Wolf, Tal Hassner, and Yaniv Taigman, Descriptor Based Methods in the Wild, Faces in Real-Life Images workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, Oct 2008 (project and code, PDF). Best result on the LFW face recognition benchmark, at the Faces in Real-Life Images workshop, 2008

Ran Gal, Ariel Shamir, Tal Hassner, Mark Pauly and Daniel Cohen-Or, Surface Reconstruction using Local Shape Priors, Proceedings of the fifth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), Barcelona, 2007 (project, PDF)

Ronen Basri, Tal Hassner, and Lihi Zelnik-Manor*, Approximate Nearest Subspace Search with Applications to Pattern Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, June 2007 (project, PDF, PPT)
*Author names in alphabetical order due to equal contribution.

Tal Hassner and Ronen Basri, Automatic Depth-Map Colorization, Eurographics (short), Vienna, Sept. 2006 (PDF) Patent pending

Tal Hassner and Ronen Basri, Example Based 3D Reconstruction from Single 2D Images, Beyond Patches Workshop at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New-York, June 2006. (project, PDF). Patent pending

Tal Hassner, Lihi Zelnik-Manor, George Leifman, and Ronen Basri, Minimal-Cut Model Composition, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), Boston, June 2005. (project, PDF). Best Student Paper Award at SMI'05; Patent pending

Michal Irani, Tal Hassner, and P.Anandan, What Does the Scene Look Like from a Scene Point? European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2002. (project, PDF)

Reports

R. Basri, T.Hassner and L. Zelnik-Manor, A General Framework for Approximate Nearest Subspace Search, Technical Report CCIT #699 , Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, June 2008. (PDF)
*Author names in alphabetical order due to equal contribution.

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